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Participant Info

First Name

Catherine

Surname

Noonan

Native Place

Bodale [Bodyke], Clare

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Edward & Betty (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Thomas Arbuthnot (Sydney 1850)

Details

shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony; Gundagai Depot; empl. as house servant by RJ Shelley, Tumut ₤8,1yr; to South Australia with Shelley family looking for new grazing lands; married Henry Higgins, shoemaker from Kent, 1851 at Kooringa (Burra) SA; moved to Victorian goldfields at Newstead; Henry a miner, then farmer in Newstead-Clydesdale district; 11 children; Catherine died 1914 at Clydesdale, Vic.

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